BELCHERTOWN -- The recent Belchertown High School graduate charged in connection with the crash that killed Amherst blogger Larry Kelley was using his cell phone at the time of the crash, according to the probable cause statement filed by state police.

Ryan Fellion, 18, is scheduled to be arraigned in Eastern Hampshire District Court on Aug. 4 on charges of negligent motor vehicle homicide, unsafe driving, failure to drive on the right lane and a marked lanes violation, according to court documents.

Kelley, a fifth-generation Amherst resident and author of the popular blog "Only in the Republic Amherst," died in the Feb. 17 crash on Federal Street.

The probable cause statement does not specifically allege Fellion was texting at the time of the crash. Instead, it states that the Fellion's phone was "actively accessing data and was being used while operating his motor vehicle."

The document quotes a passenger in Fellion's vehicle, though, who said Fellion was texting while driving from Belchertown toward Amherst when he allegedly crossed the center lines and crashed head-on into the vehicle Kelley was driving.

A witness traveling behind Fellion's sedan told police he saw the car start to drift into the oncoming lane and did not recall seeing any brake lights nor attempt to "correct its course of travel" prior to the crash.

Another witness traveling two cars behind Fellion said the car was "completely over in the other lane" and the oncoming vehicle "had no way to go."

Fellion and two passengers in his car were injured and taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield after the crash.

According to the probable cause statement, the friend who said Fellion was texting at the time of the crash also told his mother in a text that Fellion "was always texting and driving and speeding."

"We always told him he was gonna kill someone," the friend wrote in another text, according to police.

Negligent motor vehicle homicide is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 21/2 years in a county jail. A conviction carries a 15-year loss of license.